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      rTIHE new Ministers are decidedly at a premium JL in the political market . They have everywhere as yet heen successful j even in the three contested elections which were finished on Thursday . An astonishing unanimity prevails among all the constituencies ; even where Radical opposition seemed disposed to make a stand , candidates , as nt Oxford and Brighton , could not be procured , and the men of extreme opinions co » - dially gave way , content with a protest . A more triumphant re-entry into Parliament was never made by any Ministers who appealed for a ratification of their professed intentions to the popular voice . The no-Popery cry , revived at Halifax and Oxford , stirred no profound response ; but it is a sure indication of the line which the new opposition intend to adopt . Considered in their characteristics the elections offer some notable peculiarities . Nothing is more remarkable than the trust which the Radical constituencies , like Southwark and Wolverhampton , repose in their members . Sir William Molcsworth was elected in three-quarters of an hour , unchallenged , and without a murmur of opposition . The same happy lot befel Mr . Villicrs ; who summed up the Ministerial programme in a striking way" Free-trade , religious equality , and the people ' s rights . " Nobody , at least on the popular side , seems to doubt the sincerity of the new Cabinet ; which , considering the men , is remarkable . In the City , no pledges were exacted from Lord John Russell , who has regained his bldposition there . He opposes the Ballot , nevertheless ; anddcclares that injustice is inherent in an income-tax . He gave some prominence to an intimation of his intention to protect British subjects abroad , which is cheering after the reign of Malmesbury . Lord John said little respecting education ; which hardly accords with a rumour that has reached ua that a new office—a Ministry of Public Instruction—is to be created especially for him . In which case , probably , Lord Clarendon would enter the Cabinet as Foreign Minister . Lord Polnierston scarcely kept up his oratorical reputation at Tlvorton ; but then he had only just recovered from that attack of influenza which prevented his attendance at the division on the Budget . He was the least explicit of all the Ministers ; | U » d hi $ praise of the late Government was equivocal . Undoubtedly the hero of the elections is Sir JumcH [ Town Edition . ]

      Graham . Although it was " one of the wettest days" he ever saw , he stood up before his " Radical constituents ; " and dealt his blows right and left with great heartiness and good humour . He dissected the Charter in his most slashing style i but his arguments were neither novel nor logical . He showed that manhood suffrage would place the vote in the hands of the dependent classes ; and having done that , he declared the Ballot practically useless as a protection . The best answer to this isu that the people who require it du not think it w >; and granting the Ballot , the argument against the widest extension of the suffrage falls to the ground . We cannot omit to notice the admirable behaviour of his opponent , Mr . Sturgeon , who stood fire well , returned it heartily , and was courteous withal . Certainly he raised the character of Chartism ; not a useless service in these days . It is clear that the fair promises of Ministers have won them a great amount of support ; and the " strong government , " so long sighed for , is acquiesced in with almost too much alacrity . The most important contest is that for the University of Oxford . By Carlton Club manoeuvres an opponent to Mr . Gladstone was ruked up at the last moment , and the University , against its wishes , involved in a contest . Mr . Dudley Perceval , the new man , is totally without reputation ; and he ought to have no chance against the known character , abilities , and experience of Mr . Gladstone . If he should be left to succeed , it would be to the eternal disgrace of Ox ford ' . The result of the week ' s electioneering leaves the Ministry in a very substantial position . All the great popular constituencies accept the combined administration without reserve ; Oxford University seems disposed to reject it in a spirit of pique : South Wilts , the only county appealed to , has called in the aid of Grantley Berkeley , probably on account of bis scorn of syntax , and hankering after Protection .. But his chances are not alarming . As respects the Opposition , we have not the slightestindicationof their intentions , except that the language of Mr . Edwards , at Halifax , ami the choice of Mr . Perceval , ut Oxford , look amazingly like a programme borrowed from Lord George Gordon . Tho steady and increasing national prosperity , in a financial aaul commercial sense , is amply attested and confirmed by the Revenue Tables of the hint quarter . Tl > e slight decrease in the Customs and the Kxciae is only a decrease on the

      quarter , and not as compared with the same period of last year , which , considering the unprecedented circumstances of 1851 , and the emigration of ' 52 , together with the effect of recent reductions of duty , and the diminished importation of corn in the one case , and the high price of barley and the recent disturbance of the market , in the other , is eminently satisfactory : while in the stamps there is an increase on the quarter of 187 , 544 Z . ; in the Assessed Taxes , of 233 , 951 Z . ; in the Property Tax , of 100 , 282 * . ; in the Post Office , of 26 , 000 Z . ; in the Crown Lands , of 40 , 00 OZ . ; amounting on the whole to an increase in the ordinary quarter ' s revenue of 557 , 759 ? . Everything indicates abundant and elastic resources , and activity of operations . In comparing the financial years 1851 and 1852 , the latter shows an excess over the former of nearly a million sterling revenue . The success of Free-trade is more than sufficiently established ; and the working masses , it cannot be denied , are largely participating in its benefits . England is in a strong condition to meet any dangers and difficulties that the future may threaten , and the new Government may safely persevere in the course so vigorously struck out by Sir Robert Peel—the reduction of taxation and the lightening of burdens . Never was there a more propitious moment for a Government truly national , and awake to its responsibilities , to deal with our crying social evils that belie his wealth and darken this prosperity . Pauperism , moral and physical , has to be extirpated , not merely got out of the way , and fed with the soup and sermons of halfselfish charity . While the hideous contrasts and anomalies around us still fester , prosperity is but a plethora , and the great heart of the country is diseased ,, while the face is flushed with n false colour . Pleasant prospects open up at Liverpool where under the eyes of Lord D « rby , llnghuul and America popularly ratified a holy alliance , based on constitutional liberty and commerce . The most generous feeling prevailed . Mr . [ ngersoll'H eloquent description of the tics that bind us to the United States will live in the memory . Lord Derby himself seemed anxious to demonstrate how natural , essential , and necessary is the alliance of the two peoples . Souui of the old radical fire of the " Young Stanley , " of twenty years ago , seemed to warm his eloquence . We look upon this banquot as the completion of one great step towards an actual official allian % ; it has aliown war with America to be impossible .

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      VOL . IV . No . 146 . ] SATURDAY , JANUARY 8 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK— Connt Fathom at the Lambeth Police East Brent ; the Feast of St . Erastus ; Philosophy of the Senses SAGS Court . " 33 a Political Saint 37 Two Novels ** Election Intelligence 26 Miscellaneous 34 Republicans in State 33 Books on our Table ** The Revenue ..... 28 Healthof London during the Week ... 34 Mansion-House Justice 38 The " Area of Freedom : " America , . Births , Marriages , and Deaths 34 The Unprincipled Opposition to Mr . PORTFOLIOCuba , and France 28 Gladstone at Oxford . 38 The Works of the Old Painters : their The Anglo-American Alliance at POSTSCRIPT 35 The Gibbet as a Pulpit 39 Ruin and Renovation 44 Liverpool , v 29 An Evening with a Propagandist 39 Letters from Paris 30 pum ir » AFFAIRS— " Deserters" of the Irish Brigade ... 40 AD -rc Continental Notes 31 ruoun , « rr « iwa How Jurieg ConvLct - m the j ^^ THE AKTb Abstract of the Bombay Association ' s What Ministers might do Abroad ... 35 Fashion 40 Only Once a Year ! 46 Petition to Parliament 31 How to Keep English Working-Men Hard Times at " Modern Times" 32 at Home 36 LITERATURE— COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSRailway Collision : Eight Killed ! 32 European Policy in America ; and Apsley House—the Private View 33 American Policy in Europe . 37 Recent Poems 41 Markets , Advertisements , &c 46-4 B

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      " The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between , men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside ths distinctions or religion . Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object-the free development of our spiritual nature . "—JStmboldf ' t Cormot .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1968/page/1/